When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

The only place I'm recognized is at the mall, because that's where the teens are.

I think it's important to realize that we're all just human. I mean, nobody is supernatural.

Something that's fun for me is a challenge. When you have a challenge and you take on that challenge and succeed, that's the best feeling.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.

America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.

I think theater is very much my natural home. But the truth is that the older I've got, and the more I've written film and television, I find it incredibly hard to write theater.